Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Australia's import sources for HS product codes where a single source country accounts for >= 80% of total imports and the import value is >= 10,000,000 USD. Only data for the most recent available year is displayed. If you want more data, visit the Country Matrix.
Australia
61 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Areas, nes | 8209 | Tools; plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of sintered metal carbides or cermets | 2025 | 100.00% | 24,120,225 |
| 2 | Philippines | 7402 | Copper; unrefined, copper anodes for electrolytic refining | 2025 | 99.94% | 613,602,323 |
| 3 | China | 8606 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; not self-propelled | 2025 | 99.91% | 181,248,694 |
| 4 | Indonesia | 2706 | Tar distilled from coal, from lignite, peat and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled; including reconstituted tars | 2025 | 99.91% | 27,316,203 |
| 5 | Areas, nes | 9999 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 2025 | 99.81% | 3,276,813,633 |
| 6 | Gabon | 2602 | Manganese ores and concentrates, including ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates with a manganese content of 20% or more, calculated on the dry weight | 2025 | 99.16% | 10,742,632 |
| 7 | USA | 0809 | Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh | 2025 | 99.13% | 19,148,107 |
| 8 | Brazil | 2603 | Copper ores and concentrates | 2025 | 99.10% | 19,852,818 |
| 9 | Canada | 2503 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | 2025 | 99.00% | 161,598,057 |
| 10 | USA | 8602 | Rail locomotives; (other than those of heading no. 8601), locomotive tenders | 2025 | 98.91% | 41,097,489 |
| 11 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 98.77% | 57,686,716 |
| 12 | Indonesia | 3817 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 | 2025 | 98.07% | 10,853,068 |
| 13 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 97.56% | 142,491,543 |
| 14 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 96.18% | 427,307,983 |
| 15 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 95.51% | 47,888,957 |
| 16 | Qatar | 2814 | Ammonia; anhydrous or in aqueous solution | 2025 | 95.48% | 14,126,122 |
| 17 | New Zealand | 0302 | Fish; fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304 | 2025 | 95.24% | 44,393,097 |
| 18 | Argentina | 2304 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2025 | 95.05% | 305,079,632 |
| 19 | China | 2809 | Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 94.73% | 13,135,860 |
| 20 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 93.46% | 39,856,852 |
| 21 | China | 7008 | Glass; multiple-walled insulating units of glass | 2025 | 93.34% | 21,776,415 |
| 22 | Singapore | 8905 | Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, other vessels; the navigability of which is subsidiary to main function; floating docks, floating, submersible drilling, production platforms | 2025 | 92.37% | 1,895,710,733 |
| 23 | China | 9610 | Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed | 2025 | 92.21% | 16,067,307 |
| 24 | China | 9615 | Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof | 2025 | 92.16% | 28,937,205 |
| 25 | China | 2826 | Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts | 2025 | 91.93% | 33,452,253 |
| 26 | Areas, nes | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2025 | 91.79% | 584,377,133 |
| 27 | China | 7418 | Copper; table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot scourers, scouring, polishing pads, gloves and the like; sanitary ware and parts thereof | 2025 | 91.56% | 61,340,504 |
| 28 | China | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2025 | 91.34% | 62,267,292 |
| 29 | USA | 0805 | Citrus fruit; fresh or dried | 2025 | 91.28% | 24,823,341 |
| 30 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 91.17% | 144,246,064 |
| 31 | Indonesia | 2818 | Aluminium oxide (including artificial corundum); aluminium hydroxide | 2025 | 89.60% | 241,716,408 |
| 32 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2025 | 89.39% | 10,012,126 |
| 33 | Malaysia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 89.30% | 94,690,094 |
| 34 | China | 8513 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512 | 2025 | 88.99% | 58,458,541 |
| 35 | Argentina | 1202 | Ground-nuts; not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken | 2025 | 88.47% | 34,014,662 |
| 36 | Areas, nes | 7208 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products of a width of 600mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 88.43% | 87,515,334 |
| 37 | New Zealand | 3501 | Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues | 2025 | 87.95% | 19,170,333 |
| 38 | China | 8541 | Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals | 2025 | 87.76% | 658,148,467 |
| 39 | China | 8303 | Safes; armoured or reinforced, strong-boxes, doors and safe deposit lockers for strong-rooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of base metal | 2025 | 86.81% | 24,517,197 |
| 40 | Malaysia | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 86.37% | 33,566,868 |
| 41 | China | 4903 | Children's picture, drawing or colouring books | 2025 | 86.33% | 32,795,175 |
| 42 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 85.71% | 198,067,117 |
| 43 | China | 6301 | Blankets and travelling rugs | 2025 | 85.36% | 80,554,533 |
| 44 | Netherlands | 2403 | Manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes n.e.c; homogenised or reconstituted tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences | 2025 | 85.13% | 71,278,122 |
| 45 | China | 2003 | Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved other than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2025 | 84.60% | 11,274,191 |
| 46 | France | 4416 | Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves | 2025 | 83.94% | 31,233,107 |
| 47 | China | 7610 | Aluminium; structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading no. 9406) and parts (e.g. bridges and sections, towers, lattice masts, etc) plates, rods, profiles and tubes for structures | 2025 | 83.71% | 598,245,280 |
| 48 | USA | 0504 | Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish); whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked | 2025 | 83.57% | 18,627,004 |
| 49 | Areas, nes | 3904 | Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms | 2025 | 83.56% | 133,862,396 |
| 50 | Rep. of Korea | 7901 | Zinc; unwrought | 2025 | 83.33% | 17,870,257 |
| 51 | Mauritania | 2601 | Iron ores and concentrates; including roasted iron pyrites | 2025 | 83.25% | 101,375,884 |
| 52 | Areas, nes | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 83.09% | 175,289,667 |
| 53 | Finland | 8901 | Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods | 2025 | 82.54% | 367,791,232 |
| 54 | China | 2931 | Other organo-inorganic compounds | 2025 | 81.55% | 80,927,126 |
| 55 | China | 9404 | Mattress supports; articles of bedding (e.g. mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions pouffes and pillows), fitted with springs or stuffed, whether or not covered | 2025 | 81.39% | 464,213,419 |
| 56 | Italy | 3003 | Medicaments; (not goods of heading no. 3002, 3005 or 3006) of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic use not in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | 2025 | 81.11% | 57,718,505 |
| 57 | China | 9503 | Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds | 2025 | 80.89% | 1,148,703,563 |
| 58 | Malaysia | 1514 | Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 80.67% | 20,270,316 |
| 59 | China | 6911 | Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet articles; of porcelain or china | 2025 | 80.65% | 60,924,737 |
| 60 | India | 7104 | Stones; synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport | 2025 | 80.47% | 24,504,032 |
| 61 | China | 2935 | Sulphonamides | 2025 | 80.18% | 14,101,925 |
China: 26 occurrences
Areas, nes: 6 occurrences
USA: 5 occurrences
Indonesia: 3 occurrences
Malaysia: 3 occurrences
Argentina: 2 occurrences
New Zealand: 2 occurrences
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Canada: 1 occurrence
Finland: 1 occurrence
France: 1 occurrence
Gabon: 1 occurrence
India: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Mauritania: 1 occurrence
Netherlands: 1 occurrence
Philippines: 1 occurrence
Qatar: 1 occurrence
Rep. of Korea: 1 occurrence
Singapore: 1 occurrence
Switzerland: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
ABCBold red partner name - the import source country is flagged in the Danger Zone.
1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.